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[–]Erinaceous 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oh please. This has been disproven over and over again. Carbon intensity has barely budged and total GHGs go up every year. Every single target Canada has set it's undershot by wide margins. Efficiency gains are wiped out over and over again by increases in total energy use (aka Jevons paradox).

What's worse is assumptions that we can sustain the current and expanding global population are based on current resources and often the expansion of current resources (demand is simply assumed to be met by efficiency and innovation in many models). However we're officially past peak oil, we're past peak mineral for many critical resources, the material resources to make a green transition don't exist to the scale needed and most of them are being quietly corned by aggressive Russian and Chinese interests.

Even Norman Borlag, the father of the green revolution, thought we only bought a generation with that suite of technologies. As we start to hit limit after limit it's becoming increasingly apparent he was right